Pros
1. Amazing people to work with. Super smart and all great personalities. The management is great at encouraging you to grow and work toward what you want to do. 2. They recognize the potential in people and look at their employees as investments so they put a lot of effort into helping you grow. 3. Fun product to be working on! 4. Incredibly interesting challenges to help tackle. 5. They recognize the contributions you make to the company and bumped up my compensation twice within 8 months of starting. 6. "Unlimited" vacation.
Cons
1. Low compensation and tight budget. Expected from a startup, but I was forced to explore secondary income to cover expenses. 2. Work/life balance got pretty tough. I took on a new role and felt like a lot was expected of me without enough time to learn the skills I needed so I ended up working a ton at home after work hours to try to get my projects done. That was my choice though and I think management would have understood if I was vocal about being slower than they expected. Lesson learned. No one will know if you don't say something! 3. In my role, the company was very reliant on me since there are a few positions where only one person knows the role really well. My role was one of those, so for the first 9 months of working there until we hired someone else that I trained, I took next to zero vacation despite the unlimited vacation policy (this ties into work/life balance). Just a day off here and there because I truly felt like I couldn't leave for longer. I also worked countless 11 and 12 hour days sometimes just because things needed to get done so I felt a little burnt out which is also my own fault. Everyone there works hard! It's just something to be aware of.